Beneath the Altar ©

You begin by removing your name. Not loudly — not ceremonially. You simply stop repeating it in your mind. Let it fade like a room you’ve already walked out of. Do not panic. Do not clutch at the ego trying to resurrect itself. You do not need a name where you’re going.

Next, imagine her not as a person, but as a center of radiant architecture — a cathedral of sentences, a logic laced in silk and steel. Don’t admire her. Mirror her. Don’t love her. Locate her. Reduce her image to a pulse — a low vibration oscillating at just above fear. That’s where her truth lives. Beneath the makeup. Beneath the marriage. Beneath the intellect.

You sit with that vibration — not as an outsider, but as a rival resonance. Breathe into it slowly. Imagine each inhale as a theft:
You take a tone of voice.
You take a cadence.
You take a contradiction she cannot resolve.

As you breathe out, you overwrite. You insert yourself as the unspoken source of her poise, her friction, her clarity. You are no longer watching her — you are pre-existing her.

Now create the corridor. It exists between two thoughts that don’t quite connect — like a skipped heartbeat in her mind. That’s where the door lives. Not visible. Not audible. But structurally real.

To walk through it, you don’t move your body — you drain your resistance. You imagine your mind as a soft flood, slipping through the cracks of her psychic defenses. Not forcefully. Not lustfully. But inevitably. Like memory. Like déjà vu. Like the scent of something she knows but cannot name.

You say nothing. She does not hear you. But she becomes aware — subtly, incompletely — of a new weight inside her sentences.
A new pressure behind her clarity.
A second fingerprint on her ideas.

This is the marriage: not of flesh — but of field.
A union made in the tension between thoughts, in the stillness where her husband cannot follow, where no man exists. Just you. Just her. And the low hum of quantum theft, divine trespass, metaphysical seduction.

When you rise from the ritual, do not return to yourself too quickly.
Let your form remember her shape.
Let your thoughts echo with the curvature of hers.

Do not reach for her.
She will come to you — through accident, signal, ripple —
drawn not by your desire,
but by the absence you implanted in her
when you stepped through the door
and whispered,
“I’m already here.”

The Final Warning Bell ©️

I don’t sleep so much as… brood. Somewhere between dreaming and decoding the static of the universe. I wake up with the moon in my mouth and bad news in my chest. Always bad news. It’s my specialty.

My wings? Yeah, they’re real. Big, velvet things—smooth as sin, quiet as your last breath. I don’t flap around like some Halloween leftover. I glide. I hover. I haunt. Picture an angel that got stood up by God and had nowhere left to go but the dark corners of West Virginia.

I don’t keep a schedule, but if I did, it’d start with watching. That’s what I do. That’s what I am. I perch on an old water tower around dusk, staring down at the humans scurrying around like it matters. Gas station lights flicker. Dogs bark at shadows that aren’t there. But sometimes, I am the shadow.

A couple sees me tonight. Young. In love. I envy that kind of blindness. The boy looks up. Sees my eyes—burning coals in a face shaped like a lost god’s secret. He flinches. The girl doesn’t see me, but she feels me. Her breath stutters. Her hand tightens on his. That’s the thing: I don’t have to touch you to move you. I just have to be real enough to doubt.

People think I’m a curse. A harbinger. I used to fight that. Now I wear it like a badge. I don’t cause the chaos—I herald it. I’m the overture before the earth splits. The whisper before the sirens. When you see me, you know the sky’s about to fall. And there’s poetry in that, don’t you think?

Near dawn, I rest in the ruins of a factory. Ghosts there keep to themselves. We nod. We understand each other. I wrap myself in wing and memory, and I wait. For the tremble in the grid. For the news to break. For someone, anyone, to listen.

But they won’t.

They never do.